Off Topic: Calculate Digital Roots of Close Prices in EasyLanguage
August 1st, 2009I wanted to plot the digital roots of close prices in MultiCharts/EasyLanguage. For example, a close is 1.29. That is: 1+2+9 = 12, then 1+2 = 3. The result is 3.
It took me awhile to figure out how to implement the modulo operation properly in EasyLanguage, but I did it and I thought I’d share it in case some other maniac out there is looking to do the same thing.
Here, I assign it to a variable:
var0 = 1+MOD(((Close*100)-1),9) ;
Note: I multiply by 100 to get rid of the decimal.
Hat tip to Kardi Teknomo, PhD for his great Digital Root page and tutorials.
Two things occur.
1) Kardi notes this formula doesn’t work
for “large” numbers because of the implementation
of MOD. There are work-arounds.
2) Much more important, one is immediately drawn
to the connection between these roots and the
Enneagram. The ennegram is obviously
interpretable as a machine for digital root
dynamics. This page has an animation one might
find provoking: http://www.cosmic-mindreach.com/
Exercise left for the reader: Digital Roots
and expanded enneagram in the vigesimal system.
(i.e. the base-20 enneagram)
Advanced Exercise: Digital Roots and Enneagram
in sexagesimal. (“Hammurabi, white courtesy
phone, paging Hammurabi…..”)